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Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai | |
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Directed by | Karan Johar |
Produced by | Yash Johar Hiroo Johar |
Written by | Karan Johar |
Starring | Shah Rukh Khan Kajol Rani Mukerji Salman Khan |
Music by | Jatin-Lalit |
Cinematography | Santosh Thundiyil Santosh Sivan(Additional Shots) |
Edited by | Sanjay Sankla |
Distributed by | Dharma Productions Yash Raj Films |
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Running time
185 minutes[1] |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Box office | 1.03 billion (US$16 million)[2] |
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (translation: Something Happens), also known as KKHH, is an Indian Hindi coming-of-age romantic comedy drama film, released in India and the United Kingdom on 16 October 1998. It was written and directed by Karan Johar, and starred the popular on-screen pair of Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol in their fourth film together. Rani Mukerji featured in a supporting role, while Salman Khan had an extended guest appearance.
Filmed in India, Mauritius, and Scotland, this was Karan Johar's directorial debut. One of his goals for the film was to set a new level for style in Hindi cinema. The plot combines two love triangles set years apart. The first half covers friends on a college campus, while the second tells the story of a widower's young daughter who tries to reunite her dad with his old friend.
The film was extremely successful in India and abroad, becoming the highest grossing Indian film of the year, and the first Bollywood film to enter the UK cinema top ten. The soundtrack also became the biggest seller of the year. The film won many major awards including the "Best Film" honours at the Filmfare Awards, the National Film Awards, Zee Cine Awards, Screen Awards, and Bollywood Movie Awards. Years after its release, it still makes appearances on Indian television and has achieved an iconic status.
Rahul Khanna (Shah Rukh Khan) and tomboy Anjali Sharma (Kajol) are best friends in St. Xavier's College. The college principal Mr. Malhotra (Anupam Kher) has a beautiful daughter Tina (Rani Mukerji), who comes to St. Xavier's from London to finish her degree. She becomes friends with both Rahul and Anjali. When Anjali realizes that she is in love with Rahul, she is encouraged by her motherly guardian Rifat Bi (Himani Shivpuri) to tell him so. Instead, Anjali is left heartbroken when Rahul tells her that he loves Tina. Anjali decides to leave college and shares a tearful goodbye with Rahul, going away from Rahul and Tina's lives forever. Tina then realizes that she came between two best friends who actually loved each other. After college, Rahul marries Tina and, in a year of marriage, Tina gives birth to a baby girl. Tina has complications in her pregnancy and has little time left, so she writes eight letters to her daughter (one for each of her first eight birthdays), so that she will know her mother. Before dying, Tina asks Rahul to promise her to name their daughter Anjali.
Eight years pass, and Rahul is a single parent living with his daughter and loving mother (Farida Jalal). On her eighth birthday, little Anjali Khanna (Sana Saeed) reads the last and most important letter that her mother left her; it tells the story of Anjali Sharma and how she was always Rahul's true love. Tina explains in her letter that Rahul always said that love is friendship, and without friendship there can be no love. Rahul is a single parent and lacks a friend in his life, so Tina gives her daughter the mission of reuniting Rahul with Anjali Sharma and bringing back Rahul's lost love. Anjali Sharma is no longer the tomboy she was in college; she is now more feminine, and is engaged to Aman Mehra (Salman Khan). However, she explains to her mother (Reema Lagoo) that she does not really love him and is marrying him as a compromise as she feels she can never love again after losing Rahul. Aman also suspects that she does not really love him. Anjali Khanna and her grandmother search for Anjali Sharma and soon learn that she is going to be working at a summer camp. They travel there, with a plan to later lure Rahul to come as well, and the two Anjalis meet each other. One night while watching television, Anjali Sharma realizes she has met her best friend's daughter, and that Tina is dead. Rahul soon arrives at Camp Sunshine, where he and Anjali Sharma are surprised and delighted to see each other again, sharing a sweet reunion. Throughout the days spent at the camp, Rahul and Anjali feel themselves falling in love. However, Anjali remembers that she is engaged and feels guilty. Aman arrives and tells Rahul that he is Anjali's fiancee. Rahul is heartbroken but congratulates Anjali. She takes this as him rejecting her again, so she leaves summer camp and decides to get married to Aman as soon as possible.
After seeing Tina in a dream, Rahul and his family go to Anjali's wedding, where Rahul silently confesses to Anjali that he loves her, and watches in tears as she is brought forth for the wedding. Realizing this, Anjali is hesitant to go on with the marriage, and stands weeping. Aman notices the tears in her eyes and realizes that she has always been in love with Rahul. He releases Anjali from the engagement and tells her to marry Rahul. Rahul and Anjali have an emotional hug and as the two marry, little Anjali has a vision of Tina smiling and giving her the thumbs up.
- Shah Rukh Khan as Rahul Khanna: A student at St. Xavier's college, and Anjali Sharma's best friend. He marries Tina and they name their daughter 'Anjali.'
- Kajol as Anjali Sharma: The college's tomboy and Rahul's best friend, who is secretly in love with him.
- Rani Mukerji as Tina Malhotra: The principal's daughter, feminine, sophisticated, an alumna from Oxford University. She is the woman with whom Rahul eventually has a daughter, but has always felt guilty for coming between Anjali and Rahul. She passes away after giving birth to her child.
- Sana Saeed as Anjali Khanna: Named after Anjali Sharma, she is Rahul's and Tina's daughter.
- Salman Khan as Aman Mehra: Anjali Sharma's loving fiancé.
- Farida Jalal as Mrs. Khanna: Rahul's mother.
- Anupam Kher as Principal Malhotra: Tina's father. He is slightly infatuated with Ms. Briganza.
- Archana Puran Singh as Ms. Briganza: A showy English teacher. She flirts with Principal Malhotra.
- Reema Lagoo as Mrs. Sharma: She is Anjali Sharma's mother and has doubts about her daughter's motives for marrying Aman.
- Himani Shivpuri as Rifat Bi: St. Xavier's girl's hostel housekeeper.
- Johnny Lever as Col. Almeida: The manager of Camp Sunshine.
- Parzan Dastur as Silent Sardarji: A Sikh boy at Camp Sunshine that never talks.
- Neelam as herself in a special appearance: She is the host of The Neelam Show.
- Nikhil Advani in a special appearance
- Farah Khan in a special appearance as the new girl friend of Nikhil Advani
After the experience of assisting and acting in his friend Aditya Chopra's directorial debut, the romance film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Karan Johar was encouraged to try his own hand at directing. With Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, he chose to pair up the same lead actors, Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, for his own romance film.[3] During the filming of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Khan had also encouraged Johar to make his own film, and said that he would be willing to star in it.[4]
Johar first wrote a story, which was a love triangle between a tomboy, a very pretty girl and a slightly insensitive boy, but he shelved the idea because he was not very satisfied with it. Then he wrote another plot about a widower and his child, which he shelved as well. Eventually he decided to merge the two stories into one. He explained in an interview with Rediff.com: "It was about the trauma of a widower and his little child. How the child really wants a mother and how she brings her mother into her father's life. Then I thought: Why not bring a youth aspect to the story? Why not a flashback? That's how the story got made."[5] The story also includes a "personal desires vs. parental loyalties" theme,[6] and has some "East meets West" themes, but instead of the characters going abroad, it creates a virtual West inside India.[7]
Karan Johar was certain from the beginning who he wanted to cast in the lead roles, having observed Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol during the making of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.[8] It took longer to fill the role of Tina. The role was written with Twinkle Khanna in mind, but she turned it down.[9] Other actresses such as Tabu, Shilpa Shetty, Urmila Matondkar, Aishwarya Rai, Raveena Tandon and Karisma Kapoor were offered the role but also turned it down.[10] Rani Mukerji, without being asked, read the script and volunteered for the part, which gave a boost to her career.[9]
Johar, who is also a costume designer, wanted to set a new level for style in Hindi cinema with this film. He and his friend Manish Malhotra, the film's costume designer, made trips to London for costumes, much to the chagrin of his father and producer Yash Johar, who was concerned about the budget. Many of the costumes in the film prominently displayed logos from designers such as DKNY and Polo.[4] In addition to the designer fashions, Johar also created a somewhat fantastical world where the students speak Hinglish and enjoy a pristine college campus, where there is no crime or hate, and traditional Hindu values are pervasive.[11] Johar admitted that the look and feel of the college scenes in the film were patterned after Beverly Hills 90210, saying, "The art, the costumes, tilt toward the West, but the soul of the film is Indian."[12] He hired Sharmishta Roy as art director, and told him to produce something similar to Riverdale High School of the Archie Comics, with some 90210 influence as well. Johar said of the outcome, "If you see KKHH, Shahrukh plays Archie, Rani Mukherji plays Veronica, and Kajol played Bettie. It was exactly that. And the principal looked like Weatherbee, and Mrs. Grundee was Archana Puran Singh."[13] Johar also hired Farah Khan to do the choreography, Jatin-Lalit to provide the music, Santosh Thundiyil as cinematographer, and Nikhil Advani as his associate director. Shabina Khan assisted Manish Malhotra with costume design.
Filming began on 21 October 1997. The crew was young and inexperienced to the point where Shah Rukh Khan had to explain basic technicalities of filming. Khan later said, "Karan makes no bones of the fact that his technical knowledge of filmmaking was not at its peak when he made the biggest hit of the decade."[4] The entire film was shot in nine and half months[5] with a substantial part of it shot in Mauritius.[14][15] The title song was filmed in several picturesque locations in Scotland[16] over a ten-day period.[17]
During the bicycle sequence in the "Yeh Ladka Hai Deewana" song, Kajol lost control of her bike, fell flat on her face and was knocked unconscious while also injuring her knee. During the promotional Making of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai TV special, Kajol stated that the accident was her most memorable part of shooting the film because she doesn't remember it.[18] During preparation for the reunion scene where the two leads met after more than 8 years apart, the director told them to improvise and rehearse the reactions that they might use, but he secretly taped them, and was so pleased with the result that it was put into the film.[19]
The Kuch Kuch Hota Hai soundtrack was composed by Jatin-Lalit and the lyrics were penned by Sameer. It was released by the Sony Music label on 13 August 1998.[20] The album features playback singers Kavita Krishnamurthy (as Tina Malhotra and Mrs. Sharma), Udit Narayan (as Rahul Khanna), Alka Yagnik (as Anjali Sharma), and Kumar Sanu (as Aman Mehra). Mukul Deshpande of Planet Bollywood rated the soundtrack 8.5 out of 10 stars although he did not like all of the songs.[21] The album became the best selling Bollywood soundtrack of the year.[22] The title song remained on the Indian music charts for over a year,[23] and in 2012 it was voted as the most popular film song of the previous decade by NDTV. The full soundtrack came in second place in a similar poll conducted by the BBC.[24]
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai: Track listing | ||||||||||
No. | Title | Singer(s) | Length | |||||||
1. | "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai" | Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik | 4:56 | |||||||
2. | "Koi Mil Gaya" | Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, Kavita Krishnamurthy | 7:16 | |||||||
3. | "Saajanji Ghar Aaye" | Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik, Kavita Krishnamurthy | 7:14 | |||||||
4. | "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (Sad)" | Alka Yagnik | 1:26 | |||||||
5. | "Yeh Ladka Hai Deewana" | Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik | 6:36 | |||||||
6. | "Tujhe Yaad Na Meri Aayee" | Alka Yagnik, Manpreet Akhtar, Udit Narayan | 7:03 | |||||||
7. | "Raghupati Raghav" | Alka Yagnik, Shankar Mahadevan | 2:05 | |||||||
8. | "Ladki Badi Anjaani Hai" | Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik | 6:23 | |||||||
Total length:
42:59 |
While comparing the film to Dil To Pagal Hai of 1997, Nikhat Kazmi of The Times of India gave Kuch Kuch Hota Hai 3.5 out of 5 stars. She especially liked the performance of Kajol, and thought that the film would appeal to young and romantic viewers primarily for its "MTV ambiance" and "Valentine Day flavours". On the negative side, she said "The second half however gets drowned in a sea of emotions. Too many people begin to cry a bit too much."[25] Anish Khanna of Planet Bollywood rated the film 9.5 out of 10 stars, calling it "pure escapist cinema at its best." He praised the cinematography, choreography, set decoration, and also raved over Kajol's performance, along with her onscreen chemistry with Shah Rukh Khan. Overall, he said "Karan Johar makes an impressive directorial debut, has a good script sense, and knows how to make a film with S-T-Y-L-E."[26] In contrast to these views, the reaction of Sujata C J, writing for Rediff.com, was that the film was very disappointing, with many cliches and a bad story line, though Santosh Thundiyil and Sharmishta Roy were praised for their camerawork and art direction, respectively.[27] Nandita Chowdhury in a review for India Today, said that Karan Johar was almost able to rekindle the Khan-Kajol magic of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, and that overall the film was "a good distraction".[15]
Box office[edit]
There were great expectations for Kuch Kuch Hota Hai leading up to its premiere, because it re-united the Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge team of Shahrukh Khan and Kajol, and specifically concerning the debut of Karan Johar; whether he would be in the same league as Aditya Chopra as a first-time writer/director.[26] After an "Excellent" opening, it earned 450 million (US$7.1 million) net and 770 million (US$12 million) gross in India, became the highest grossing Indian film of 1998, and was declared by Box Office India to be an "All Time Blockbuster".[28] It was one of the biggest foreign films ever at the UK box office at the time,[29] earning almost £1.5 million,[30] and becoming the first Bollywood film to break into the UK cinema top 10.[31] In South Africa and Indonesia, the film made more money than Titanic.[4][32] It was also very popular in the Netherlands, where it toured three times to sold out theatres.[6] The films's total collection in overseas markets was US$6.25 million.[33] The film went on to make a lifetime worldwide gross of 1.03 billion (US$16 million),[2] becoming the third Bollywood film to gross over 1 billion (US$16 million) worldwide.[34] Adjusted for inflation, it has grossed 1.83 billion (US$29 million).[35]
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai won many awards, including sweeping all the major categories at the year's Filmfare Awards, held on 21 February 1999.[36] It was the third film to win the four major awards (Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress) at Filmfare. Others include Guide (1966), Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1995) (also starring Shahrukh Khan and Kajol), Devdas (2002) and Black (2005).[37]
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai has been the subject of reviews and critical analysis following its initial release. Fuad Omar called it a phenomenal debut for director Karan Johar; he said that the film has a memorable "feelgood factor".[29] Subhash K Jha called the film "a simple stylish, sensuous and ambrosial love story," further adding that the chemistry between the lead pair was unbeatable.[47] A reviewer for Timeout Film Guide, while commenting that the second love triangle went on too long, liked most of the film, saying that "its performances, camerawork, storytelling and extensive musical numbers [are] all energetically colourful."[48] In 2004, Meor Shariman of The Malay Mail called the film a "must watch" for Bollywood fans, and also for those seeking an introduction to Bollywood.[49] The film has also been criticized for creating unreal worlds and characters,[11] to which Johar has said that this was part of his vision of escapism.[50]
A few years after its release, Sony purchased satellite rights for the film for 4 crore.[51][52] The film was also released on VHS, DVD, and eventually Blu-ray.[53] Now Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, along with Johar's second film Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham..., often play on television to consistently high ratings. Johar said, "It's gratifying to know that they've aged well and passed the test of time."[54] One of the best examples of the iconic status of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai was the 2012 film Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi. Farah Khan and Boman Irani re-created scenes and characters from KKHH for posters to promote their film,[55] and also paid homage in one of the songs, "Ramba Mein Samba".[56] In 2010, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai was selected by Time as one of their "Five Essential Bollywood movies to Netflix".[57]
Koochie Koochie Hota Hai is an animated remake of the original, directed by Tarun Mansukhani. Shahrukh Khan, Kajol, Rani Mukherjee, Anupam Kher are reprising their roles as Rahul aka Rocky, Anjali aka Angie, Tina, and the Principal. New cast members include Uday Chopra, Ritesh Deshmukh, Sanjay Dutt and Simi Garewal. The story will have an anthropomorphic animal cast.[58] As of October 2012, Karan Johar has placed the project on permanent hold. He said, "Animation films are not working nowadays, so as of now I have kept it on stand-by."[59]
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Roxy and Vandallia play Frisbee in the back yard while Smith cooks and later, once everyone realizes they're eating Lauren Burgers, Chanel explains that in some cultures this would be quite acceptable - as well as tasty.
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Unit details
Year | 2014 unit information |
Offering information: | Not Offered in 2014 |
Enrolment modes: | |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Cohort rule: | (For Bachelor of Laws students only) |
Unit chair: | J Morss |
Prerequisite: | Nil |
Corequisite: | Nil |
Incompatible with: | Nil |
Contact hours: | 3 x 1 hour classes per week |
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The nature, principles, structure and institutions of public international law are studied to enable students to develop an understanding of past and current issues concerning international affairs from an international law perspective. Topics include: the history, nature, sources, and subjects of international law; jurisdictions and immunity; creation and recognition of states and governments; the United Nations and International Court of Justice; human rights; refugees and the use of force.
Written Assignment (two parts) 40%, Examination 2 hours 60%
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Agencies can take a number of actions to help guard against the possibility that databases of personally identifiable information are inadvertently compromised. The first key step is to develop a privacy impact assessment--an analysis of how personal information is collected, stored, shared, and managed--whenever information technology is used to process personal information. These assessments, required by the E-Government Act of 2002, are a tool for agencies to fully consider the privacy implications of planned systems and data collections before implementation, when it may be easier to make critical adjustments. The second key step is to ensure that a robust information security program is in place, as required by the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA). Such a program includes periodic risk assessments; security awareness training; security policies, procedures, and practices, as well as tests of their effectiveness; and procedures for addressing deficiencies and for detecting, reporting, and responding to security incidents. More specific practical measures aimed at preventing inadvertent data breaches include limiting the collection of personal information, limiting the time that such data are retained, limiting access to personal information and training personnel accordingly, and considering the use of technological controls such as encryption when data need to be stored on mobile devices. When data breaches do occur, notification to the individuals affected and/or the public has clear benefits, allowing people the opportunity to take steps to protect themselves against the dangers of identity theft. Although existing laws do not require agencies to notify the public when data breaches occur, such notification is consistent with agencies' responsibility to inform individuals about how their information is being accessed and used, and it promotes accountability for privacy protection. That said, care is needed in defining appropriate criteria for incidents that merit notification. Notifying individuals of security incidents that do not pose serious risks could be counterproductive and costly, while giving too much discretion to agencies could result in their avoiding the disclosure of potentially harmful breaches. Care is also needed to ensure that notices are useful and easy to understand, so that they are effective in alerting recipients to actions they may want to take to minimize the risk of identity theft. Among other things, it is important to provide context in the notice--explaining to recipients why they are receiving a notice and what to do about it. It is also important the notices be coordinated with law enforcement to avoid impeding ongoing investigations. Given that individuals may be adversely impacted by a compromise of their personal information, it is critical that they fully understand the nature of the threat and the options they have to address it.
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Department of Justice:
Alternative Sources of Funding Are a Key Source of Budgetary Resources and Could Be Better ManagedGAO-15-48: Published: Feb 19, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 23, 2015.
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Criminal History Records:
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Whistleblower Protection:
Additional Actions Needed to Improve DOJ's Handling of FBI Retaliation ComplaintsGAO-15-343T: Published: Mar 4, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 4, 2015.
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Whistleblower Protection:
Additional Actions Needed to Improve DOJ's Handling of FBI Retaliation ComplaintsGAO-15-112: Published: Jan 23, 2015. Publicly Released: Feb 23, 2015.
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Professional Misconduct:
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The $88 million Inspire Federal Credit Union in Bristol, Pa., has hired Jim Merrill as its new CEO to succeed the retiring Glenn Styer, the credit union announced June 30.
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Jim Merrill will take over as CEO following Glenn Styer's 23 year run at the $88 million credit union.
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Targeting mid-cap companies is always an interesting endeavor. Mid-caps aren't quite large caps, so they offer room for growth, but they can also provide higher rewards, often found among their smaller cap peers. This is especially true in the industrial space, where the success of companies can ebb and flow with the changing tides of the global economy. One smart area to search in the industrial arena is among companies whose fundamental metrics suggest that they are trading below their true worth. It's even better to look among those stocks for only the companies that industry analysts have rated positively recently, and recommended as 'Buy'. Today we screened for companies with these traits, and we arrived at a compelling list of industrial stocks.
The forward P/E is a price multiple valuation metric, which is similar to the current P/E ratio, except that it uses the forecasted earnings instead. While this number might not be as accurate because it uses "forecasted" numbers, it does offer the benefit of illustrating analysts' expectations of a firm. If the market believes that earnings will grow moving forward, then the forward P/E should be lower than the current P/E. Financial Leverage, also known as the Equity Multiplier, illustrates how a firm is financing its assets. The lower the number the more a firm is financing its assets internally through stockholder equity. The higher this metric is the more the firm is relying on debt to finance its assets.
The Price/Sales ratio is a price-multiple valuation metric used to help identify if a firm is cheap by its twelve month trailing sales numbers. In the most basic terms it lets an investor know how much the investment community is willing to pay for every dollar's worth of sales. A firm with a P/S ratio of one or lower would be viewed as cheap, because investors are paying $1 or less for every dollars worth of a firm's sales. On the other hand, a firm is generally considered to be expensive when the P/S ratio is above three. These are general guidelines used by the investment community not hard rules to be clear. Price/Sales Ratio = Current Stock Price/Revenue (sales) per Share
We first looked for mid cap industrial stocks. We then looked for companies with a low price-multiple premium (forward P/E<10)(P/S<1). Next, we then screened for businesses that analysts rate as "Buy" or "Strong Buy" (mean recommendation < 3).
Do you think these mid-cap stocks will outperform? Use this list as a starting-off point for your own analysis.
1) Allegheny Technologies Inc. (NYSE:ATI)
Sector: | Industrial Goods |
Industry: | Metal Fabrication |
Market Cap: | $3.30B |
Beta: | 1.79 |
Allegheny Technologies Inc. has a Forward Price/Earnings Ratio of 8.47, a Price/Sales Ratio of 0.62, and a Analysts' Rating of 1.50. The short interest was 3.80% as of 07/22/2012. Allegheny Technologies Incorporated engages in the production of specialty metals worldwide. It operates in three segments: High Performance Metals, Flat-Rolled Products, and Engineered Products. The High Performance Metals segment provides a range of high performance alloys, including nickel- and cobalt-based alloys and super alloys; titanium and titanium-based alloys; exotic metals, such as zirconium, hafnium, niobium, nickel-titanium, and related alloys; and other specialty alloys primarily in long product forms consisting of ingots, billets, bars, shapes and rectangles, rods, wires, seamless tubes, and castings. This segment also offers forged and cast metal components, and machined parts for various load-bearing and fatigue-resisting applications in the jet engine, aerospace, and industrial markets.
2) Crane Co. (NYSE:CR)
Sector: | Industrial Goods |
Industry: | Diversified Machinery |
Market Cap: | $2.23B |
Beta: | 1.65 |
Crane Co. has a Forward Price/Earnings Ratio of 8.81, a Price/Sales Ratio of 0.86, and a Analysts' Rating of 1.90. The short interest was 0.49% as of 07/22/2012. Crane Co. manufactures and sells engineered industrial products in the United States and internationally. The company operates in five segments: Aerospace & Electronics, Engineered Materials, Merchandising Systems, Fluid Handling, and Controls. The Aerospace & Electronics segment offers pressure, fuel flow, and position sensors and subsystems; brake control systems; coolant, lube and fuel pumps; and seat actuation products.
3) Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc (NYSE:SPR)
Sector: | Industrial Goods |
Industry: | Aerospace/Defense Products & Services |
Market Cap: | $3.25B |
Beta: | 1.38 |
Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc has a Forward Price/Earnings Ratio of 8.65, a Price/Sales Ratio of 0.64, and a Analysts' Rating of 2.10. The short interest was 3.39% as of 07/22/2012. Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, designs and manufactures commercial aerostructures worldwide. It operates in three segments: Fuselage Systems, Propulsion Systems, and Wing Systems.
4) Veolia Environnement S.A. (NYSE:VE)
Sector: | Industrial Goods |
Industry: | Waste Management |
Market Cap: | $5.67B |
Beta: | 1.80 |
Veolia Environnement S.A. has a Forward Price/Earnings Ratio of 8.55, a Price/Sales Ratio of 0.16, and a Analysts' Rating of 2.00. The short interest was 0.17% as of 07/22/2012. Veolia Environnement S.A. provides environmental management services to public authorities, industrial and commercial services customers, and individuals worldwide. The company's Water segment offers water and wastewater services, including the management and operation of large-scale and customized drinking water plants, wastewater decontamination and recycling plants, drinking water distribution networks, and wastewater collection networks. This segment also designs/builds infrastructure necessary to provide water services; manufactures, installs, and operates modular standardized and semi-standardized equipment; maintains and services the installations; and treats groundwater, surface water, brackish or seawater, wastewater, and refined sludge.
5) Owens Corning (NYSE:OC)
Sector: | Industrial Goods |
Industry: | General Building Materials |
Market Cap: | $3.43B |
Beta: | 2.14 |
Owens Corning has a Forward Price/Earnings Ratio of 9.63, a Price/Sales Ratio of 0.63, and a Analysts' Rating of 1.60. The short interest was 6.45% as of 07/22/2012. Owens Corning engages in the provision of composite and building materials systems worldwide. It operates in two segments, Composites and Building Materials. The Composites segment manufactures, fabricates, and sells glass reinforcements in the form of fiber; and manufactures and sells glass fiber products in the form of fabrics, mat, veil, and other specialized products.
6) McDermott International Inc. (NYSE:MDR)
Sector: | Industrial Goods |
Industry: | Heavy Construction |
Market Cap: | $2.70B |
Beta: | 1.56 |
McDermott International Inc. has a Forward Price/Earnings Ratio of 9.70, a Price/Sales Ratio of 0.82, and a Analysts' Rating of 2.00. The short interest was 2.55% as of 07/22/2012. McDermott International, Inc. operates as an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation [EPCI] company worldwide. It focuses on designing and executing complex offshore oil and gas projects. The company offers EPCI services for offshore oil and gas field developments; and delivers fixed and floating production facilities, pipelines, and subsea systems from concept to commissioning.
7) Triumph Group, Inc. (NYSE:TGI)
Sector: | Industrial Goods |
Industry: | Aerospace/Defense Products & Services |
Market Cap: | $3.02B |
Beta: | 1.16 |
Triumph Group, Inc. has a Forward Price/Earnings Ratio of 9.61, a Price/Sales Ratio of 0.88, and a Analysts' Rating of 1.80. The short interest was 2.95% as of 07/22/2012. Triumph Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the design, engineering, manufacture, repair, overhaul, and distribution of aerostructures, aircraft components, accessories, subassemblies, and systems worldwide. Its Aerostructures Group segment designs, manufactures, builds, and repairs acoustic and thermal insulation systems, aircraft wings, composite and metal bonding, composite ducts and floor panels, empennages, engine nacelles, flight control surfaces, floor beams, fuselage sections, helicopter cabins, stretch-formed leading edges and fuselage skins, windows and window assemblies, and wing spars and stringers. The company's Aerospace Systems Group segment designs and engineers aircraft and engine mounted accessory drives, cargo hooks, cockpit control levers, control system valve bodies, exhaust nozzles and ducting, geared transmissions, heat exchangers, high lift actuation products, hydraulic systems and components, landing gear actuation systems, landing gear components and assemblies, main engine gear box assemblies, secondary flight control systems, and vibration absorbers.
*Company profiles were sourced from Finviz. Financial data was sourced from Yahoo Finance.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.


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Built from 100% sustainable materials and based on the geodesic sphere, the modular design is fully customizable. Cable suspension system, available in steel or aluminum. Build yours from a kit or have one custom designed. Calif, Wisconsin and MN.
Treehouse Djuren, Germany
By Baumraum www.baumraum.de - see inside pics!
Tree House in Osnabruck, North-West Germany
Lots more photos here: www.baumraum.de
Cone Treehouses
By Baumraum, Germany www.baumraum.de
Modular Tree House
Sybarite, London. These environmentally friendly, very light-weight prefabricated modular structures are made from 70% recycled materials. Powered by wind. Currently being built worldwide... Really! Waiting for a real picture! We hope one of the new owners will share. There is a place to tie your clean energy hovering aircraft. We can break up all the asphalt roads and let nature take back the planet!
Fab Tree Hab
Mass Institute of Technology
Live in a tree, not up in a tree...the tree grows in place 'as' the housing structure, instead of the growing, felling and transporting of lumber. A living structure is grafted into shape with prefabricated reusable scaffolds. A roof-top trough harvests water for human use; the plumbing system is positioned to provide for gravity-induced flow and gray-water reuse; a composting system treats human waste and will later return nutrients to the eco-system. www.archinode.com
Home is where the heart is...
Terrific TreeHouse Designs
Builders of 'Livable' Treehouses:
TreeHouse Workshop has built treehouses all across the country. Each treehouse is unique. They begin each treehouse with a consultation for tree selection and design. Once designed, each treehouse is built by experienced craftsmen utilizing specialized hardware and salvaged materials. Seattle, WA
Blue Forest Ltd, UK is one of the world's leading luxury tree house design and construction companies. www.blueforest.com
Finca Bellavista is a residential treehouse community in the south Pacific coastal region of Costa Rica. It is a rustic, yet comfortable, private retreat off the beaten path where owners and a limited number of guests can explore the natural wonders of the rainforest canopy and enjoy what they call 'treetop Pura Vida'. Will build a treehouse to suit. fincabellavista.com
Wooden Tree House, photo manipulation by Polish artist,
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The Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium announced today that Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, became the second Accredited Pediatric Heart Failure Institute in the nation following an in-depth onsite review.
"We pursued accreditation with the Colloquium as a way to independently assess the quality of our heart failure and related clinical programs," said Sam Gidding, MD, Division Chief of Pediatric Cardiology. "The accreditation process both validated our sense of the quality of our program and gave us many new suggestions to improve our program. We anticipate working with other Colloquium pediatric centers to better standardize and improve heart failure care for children across the United States."
Nemours is just the second pediatric hospital to earn the designation of Accredited Pediatric Heart Failure Institute and one of only five Colloquium charter member pediatric hospitals.
The reviewers, David Driscoll, MD (Mayo Clinic Children's Center) and David Wayne (Temple University) assessed Nemours in four major domains: Community, Hospital, Clinician, and Science. Within each domain, Nemours completed various milestones required for accreditation. Within the Community Domain, Nemours was found to have an exceptional support group for children and families with heart failure as well as a proactive outreach program to educate EMS (Emergency Medical Services) personnel on how to care for these children in emergencies. Within the Hospital Domain, Nemours offered advanced heart failure care including ventricular assist devices and heart transplant.
"Within the Clinician Domain, Nemours leadership is ahead of the crowd in their organizational structure." said David Wayne, lead reviewer. "Nemours functions as an authentic collaborative system with a common purpose, serving their patients. Nemours' use of data for assessment, prediction, and improvement is also unusually strong. Washington leadership would do well to learn more about Nemours' approach to childhood heart disease as our national healthcare model is being debated."
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Rosemary Brown (spiritualist)
Rosemary Brown | |
Born | 27 July 1916 |
Died | 16 November 2001 | (aged 85)
Nationality | English |
Occupation | Composer pianist Spirit Medium |
Rosemary Isabel Brown (27 July 1916 – 16 November 2001) was an English composer, pianist and spirit medium who claimed that dead composers dictated new musical works to her. She created a small media sensation in the 1970s by presenting works purportedly dictated to her by Claude Debussy, Edvard Grieg, Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Igor Stravinsky, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Rosemary Isabel Dickeson was born in London in 1916. She claimed to have been only seven years old when she was first introduced to the world of dead musicians. She reported that a spirit with long white hair and a flowing black cassock appeared and told her he was a composer and would make her a famous musician one day. She did not know who he was until, about ten years later, she saw a picture of Franz Liszt. Many other members of Brown's family were allegedly psychic, including her parents and grandparents.
She worked for the Post Office from the age of 15. In 1948 she acquired a second-hand upright piano, and took some lessons for three years.[1] In 1952 she married Charles Brown, a government scientist. They had a son and a daughter before her husband died in 1961.
Then in 1964 Liszt supposedly renewed contact and Brown began transcribing original compositions she said were dictated to her by great musicians of the past. Brown transcribed pieces from Johannes Brahms, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Franz Schubert, Edvard Grieg, Claude Debussy, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Liszt. These included a 40-page sonata she attributed to Schubert, a Fantaisie-Impromptu in three movements she attributed to Chopin, 12 songs she attributed to Schubert, and two sonatas and two symphonies she attributed to Beethoven.
Brown claimed that each composer had his own way of dictating to her: Liszt controlled her hands for a few bars at a time, and then she wrote down the notes; Chopin told her the notes and pushed her hands on to the right keys; Schubert tried to sing his compositions; and Beethoven and Bach simply dictated the notes. She claimed the composers spoke to her in English.[2]
A recording titled The Rosemary Brown Piano Album presents performances of some of the music Brown transcribed.
Rosemary Brown published three books:
- Unfinished Symphonies: Voices from the Beyond William Morrow, 1971; ISBN 978-0688026974
- Immortals at My Elbow Bachman & Turner, 1974; ISBN 978-0859740197
- Look Beyond Today Bantam Press, 1986; ISBN 978-0593010419
Critical reception[edit]
The psychologist Robert Kastenbaum analysed Brown's music compositions and came to doubt that they were dictated to Brown by spirits of well known composers. According to Kastenbaum:
There is no striking themes, complex structures, depths of feelings, or harmonic, tonal, or rhythmic innovations. During their days on earth all the composers not only created distinguished music but also contributed to the development of compositions for the keyboard. One of the characteristics that made each of them so remarkable was their unpredictability their next composition might well open a new domain in musical sensitivity or technique. Alas, they have now all fallen into desuetude. Nothing new shows up to enrich their post-mortem compositions, and nothing surprises, except perhaps the lack of surprises.[3]
Kastenbaum suggested the composers were secondary personalities of Brown herself.[3]
Brown maintained that she had never had any musical training aside from a few piano lessons, though Harry Edwards says:[4]
A perusal of newspaper reports about Ms. Brown elicit contradictory information about her alleged lack of musical education. Originally she stated that she had had no musical training, later she was reported to have had only a couple of years of music lessons, and recently admitted to belonging to a musical household and being a competent musician and pianist.
According to the psychologist Andrew Neher:
[Brown] loved music as a child, there was a piano in her home while she was growing up, her mother played the piano, and she herself took piano lessons. All of this, together with the enhanced skill often displayed in altered states of consciousness, seems sufficient to account for her musical compositions.[5]
Alan Rich, music critic of New York magazine, having heard a privately issued record of Brown's piano pieces wrote they were just sub-standard re-workings of some of their better-known compositions. After studying the compositions, psychologists came to the conclusion they were the work of Brown's own subconscious. John Sloboda wrote her music offers "the most convincing case of unconscious composition' on a large scale."[6]
- ^ Martin, Douglas (2 December 2001). "Rosemary Brown, a Friend of Dead Composers, Dies at 85". New York Times. Retrieved 29 September 2008.
- ^ Brown, Rosemary. (1971). Unfinished Symphonies. William Morrow. p. 161
- ^ a b Kastenbaum, Robert. (1984). Is There Life After Death?. Rider and Company. pp. 182–183
- ^ Edwards, Harry (1995). "Rosemary Brown (1931 – )". A skeptic's guide to the New Age. Australian Skeptics. ISBN 978-0-646-24502-7. (from on-line copy in Investigator (104), September 2005, retrieved 29 September 2008)
- ^ Neher, Andrew. (2011). Paranormal and Transcendental Experience: A Psychological Examination. Dover Publications. p. 208
- ^ Brown, Matthew. (2012). Debussy Redux: The Impact of His Music on Popular Culture. Indiana University Press. pp. 36–37
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The Samoan Experience Three days in Tafua EcoTour Samoa The Samoan Election Pruning the Mangoes Climbing Mt SiliSili Fourth week in Samoa
Samoan Observer Articles:
Why is there no fruit on my mango? Want more mangoes next year? Green oranges or orange oranges? In search of a Samoan Orange The Hardest Cut Rambutan - hairy thing from the forest Rambutan revisited Abiu - the emporer's golden fruit Avocado - fruit or vegetable? Carambola - star of the rainforest Durian - the extreme tropical fruit Rollinia - lemon meringue pies growing in the garden Sex and the single pawpaw Soursop - a taste sensation The mulch story Do it yourself pest control The joys of soapy water! The hungry fruit tree Positive insects
(One of a series of articles about growing fruit trees in Samoa, written by Digby Gotts and published in the 'Samoa Observer' between December 2000 and April 2001)
Any day in February in the Fugalei Market, you should start to see some golf ball size and bright red fruit covered in hairy threads. These are rambutan (lamutana in Samoan), a fruit native to Indonesia that have proven to grow very well here, preferring the hot and wet climate of the coast to the cooler climate of the hills. Rambutan translates from Indonesian as "hairy thing from the forest" and is a word I have often heard said about me as I push my way through Indonesian markets.
These fruits may look a little unusual, but once you break open the hairy shell the sweet melting flesh has few equals. It is much sweeter and a little larger than the lychee, a similar but non-hairy fruit from China unlikely to grow well in Samoa. Rambutan is best eaten fresh, but is so delicious that it is very difficult to simply eat one or two.
The trees can produce fruit in 4 years and by the time they are ten years old, can produce 400 kilograms of fruit every year. Seeds grow well, but unfortunately about half of these grow up to be male, and will never produce fruit. The female trees can produce fruit but the flesh is often strongly attached to the seed, a bit like mango, making it difficult to eat. Rambutan trees are normally grafted, producing a more compact tree with easy eating and well-flavoured fruit. The adult tree should be fed with one kilo of NPK at flowering and another at harvest, along with a monthly micronutrient spray. It will also help a second crop if the tree is sprayed with a 3% Potassium Nitrate solution just after the flowers have set fruit.
The only time rambutan trees are pruned is at the harvest, when the bunches of fruit are cut away along with a little wood. This will encourage new growth from the cut end with the possibility of a second crop that season. If the fruit are picked individually, a second crop has no chance. The timber in the branches is particularly weak and careless climbers can break off large limbs in their hunt for fruit. For this reason you should use a pole picker to harvest bunches of fruit. This can be made from a pair of secateurs with one handle attached to a bamboo pole, with a cord running from the ground through a pulley on the fixed handle, then to the other handle. Pull the cord to cut off a bunch of fruit.
For the moment, all locally grown fruit is sold in Samoa, but there is a possibility that this fruit can become an export crop. Research is presently underway to help this decision, but no definite answer will be available for 3-5 years. If this does happen, then expect the price to rise rapidly, so enjoy them while they are affordable in the markets.
Grafted trees, and more information, are available at Nafanua Horticulture Centre.
Rambutan revisited
The rambutan season is sadly drawing to a close but if you missed out on tasting these delicious morsels don't fret too much. A second, smaller, crop is on its way and should be ready around June. This season has been the first one for growers who have cared for their trees for around 5 years. Prices at Fugalei market of $4 – 6 a kilo have made their wait worthwhile.
The MAFFM Fruit Tree Project team have had an exciting time over the past month or so sending some trial shipments of these fruits to New Zealand for market testing and to see how difficult it is to gain the approval of the NZ Quarantine service for importing this fruit. The good news is that NZ consumers enjoyed the fruit at least as much as Samoans do here, but they are willing to pay much higher prices, making the fruit a good prospect for export. The bad news is that there is still a lot of pest control work to be done in ensuring that the fruits sent to NZ are completely clean of insect pests.
MAFFM researchers have been working flat out over the harvest season testing many of the varieties of rambutan to prove to NZ Quarantine (and others) that the local fruit flies are not attracted to these fruits. This has involved breeding thousands of the flies in sealed cages and then exposing hundreds of the fruits to the flies when they are ready to lay eggs. The exposed fruit, which may have eggs inside, are then taken to another cage where they are left to allow any eggs to develop. When the larvae hatch from their egg, they leave the fruit and drop into a sawdust layer where they can be collected. Not one fruit has so far produced one larva although the trials are continuing, as there are around 8 varieties of rambutan, each of which has to be tested.
The problem pest is proving to be mealy bugs infesting the fruit. They do little damage, but there are some that are common here and not in NZ. The NZ government therefore insists that every mealy bug be removed from the fruit before they are shipped. They are easily recognised by the white hairy patches on the fruit, but not so easily removed. They are controlled on the tree by sprays of oil or soapy water, but this doesn't remove them well enough for a quarantine standard. We have to find a safe-for-man-and-fruit cleaning process that will kill every possible mealy bug on every fruit. Work is continuing.
Another issue to be dealt with is that having identified rambutan as a strong possibility for an export crop, there are simply not yet enough trees in the country to allow an industry to become established beyond supplying the local market. Rambutan grow to be big trees and need a lot of land if they are to be grown commercially. Twenty trees, needing 2000 square meters, would be a minimum number to allow a reasonable return to a household using it's own labour. An operation employing labour would need around 200 trees for a worthwhile return on the investment.


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In 2005 Uzodinma Iweala stunned readers and critics alike with Beasts of No Nation, his debut novel about child soldiers in West Africa. Now his return to Africa has produced Our Kind of People, a non-fiction account of the AIDS crisis every bit as startling and original. HIV/AIDS has been reported as one of the most destructive diseases in recent memory—tearing apart communities and ostracizing the afflicted. But the emphasis placed on death, destruction, and despair hardly captures the many and varied effects of the epidemic, or the stories of the extraordinary people who live and die under its watch.
Our Kind of People opens our minds to these stories, introducing a new set of voices and altering the way we speak and think about disease. Iweala embarks on a remarkable journey through his native Nigeria, meeting individuals and communities that are struggling daily to understand both the impact and meaning of HIV/AIDS. He speaks with people from all walks of life—the ill and the healthy, doctors, nurses, truck drivers, sex workers, shopkeepers, students, parents, and children. Their testimonies are by turns uplifting, alarming, humorous, and surprising, and always unflinchingly candid. Integrating his own experiences with these voices, Iweala creates at once a deeply personal exploration of life, love, and connection in the face of disease, and an incisive critique of our existing ideas of health and happiness.
Beautifully written and heartbreakingly honest, Our Kind of People goes behind the headlines of an unprecedented epidemic to show the real lives it affects, illuminating the scope of the crisis and a continent's valiant struggle.
Critical Praise
"At last, an account of the AIDS crisis from the point of view of the people most affected by itmen, women and children of Africa, who are not simply victims but are heroes and scientists as well." — The Daily Beast
"A stunning inquiry into the AIDS crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. . . . Iweala evokes the human cost of AIDS, and this is where Our Kind of People excels. . . . . Iweala's focus on narrative, on sharing voices and experiences, becomes an act of redemption." — The Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Iweala's arguments are well reasoned. By making generous use of the voices of many Africans, Iweala's writing possesses an immediacy that makes his message powerful and compelling." — The Boston Globe
"Iweala tells the stories of those whose lives - and deaths - make up the numbers in a measured, accessible tone. The end of the story of HIV/AIDS is not yet written, but in Our Kind of People we see the beginnings of normalcy." — Bono
"In this unassuming but important book, Uzodinma Iweala gives the AIDS pandemic not just a human face but a human voice. . . . Remarkable." — The Times Literary Supplement
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- On Sale: 07/10/2012
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- List Price: 10.99 USD
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I will be in Phuket for two days in December and am looking for a reasonably priced hotel (1500 - 2500 THB per night) on a nice beach away from the "seediness" one finds in places like Patong.
Any recommendations?
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Karon beach is a good option. It's pretty close to Patong and Kata, the more lively beaches, but it still has a nice atmosphere and great restaurants along the beach front. The hotels located off the main road, away from the beach tend to be better value for money.#2 Posted: 8/12/2009 - 20:30
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We stayed at Kata Sea Breeze, a lovely resort with reasonable prices on Kata Beach, close to Karon. Quiet, safe, nice.
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